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It can also be used as a quick reminder of the current HOT tech topics, personally, I forget alot of stuff that I am interested in because there is so much.

It can also be used as a quick reminder of the current HOT tech topics, personally, I forget alot of stuff that I am interested in because there is so much.

actually, no, you can't buy your favorite death metal at all.

according to tech tv, wal-mart had pretty crappy selection oustide of popular mucic. With the upgrade, they've added a few exclusive country titles, but for death metal, you're still screwed (censored or not).

whorray?!??!

i'm scared of anything that wal-mart puts online after seeing their fantabulous "walmart connect" internet service. Imagine the old free ISPs like net-zero (with the movies that run while you connect) being genetically spliced with AOL 2.0, and then crapped all over by that happy wal-mart smiley face. then imagine that they make you pay for it.

How much work can it be for the esteemed geniuses behind the notorious slashcode to extend said code with some lines to automatically create anchored links from urls that were entered as text?

Something like this: http://www.techtv.com/screensavers....

No need for anything as sophisticated as a monkey brain, even a stupid computer can do it. That's what we created them for wasn't it, to do those little stupid jobs that we have to do but are to lazy for, like typing HTML tags manually...

Regards,
Xenna

This site should just slap 1337 speak all over their site right now and get it over with, because that's about the level site they are.

Not with that broken link, you can't.

Say it with me, folks: Slashdot breaks up long lines, rendering most plaintext links more trouble than they're worth. And enclosing links in anchors is easy. Why, scientists have shown that even a monkey can enclose a link in anchors. Are you stupider than a monkey?

passport compromised
beta place compromised
ms internal network compromised

Just found this
Specifically this(from the page):DVD-18 (DS/DL): 15.90 gig (17G), over 8 hours of video

Everyone's been posting Jim Louderback's premonition of TiVo's death like it's the Gospel, and so I feel compelled to tell you exactly why Jim (a reporter who's been naysaying the TiVo for years) is wrong, and that punchy three-word headlines don't equate to a balanced market analysis.

The simple reason TiVo will live is because TV is intimate. People want ownership of their experience, and they want ownership of the resulting media. This is exactly the opposite of what cable and satellite companies want.

Of course TiVo as a standalone appliance will fade away as Decoder-PVRs become common, but they'll grow into three other markets: The referenced cable/satellite set-top boxes, DVD-R burning hybrids, and as an integrated component of television sets. Two of these hybrids are already on the market (DirecTiVo and two different DVDiVos) and the third, Toshiba and Phillips TVs with integrated free 'tivo lite' will be here by Christmas.

Saying that Cable-PVRs will squash TiVo is like saying that cable squashed the VCR, when in reality it made it much stronger. For all the benefits that a cable PVR has (that it seems cheaper because the cost is built into your monthly charge), there's no content provider in the world who would ship a device that would record to DVD, and no network that would deign to be included in a service that did.

Recording to a DVD isn't as easy as recording to a tape, and this is where an integrated 'export this show to that disc' solution really shines. If you're going to buy a DVD anyhow, the incremental cost of adding PVR functionality is a gimmie. And yes, within the next 4 years it will be an incremental cost.

TiVo is source independent. Cable, satellite, bunny ears or closed-circuit TV, TiVo is your box. As each content provider has their own proprietary system, if you change providers, you have to change systems, a shift as big as switching from Mac to Windows. Oh yeah, and your shows are gone, too. It's content lock-in, and it's one of the big reasons Dish Networks wants you to use their box, so leaving their fold is more painful, even when they suddenly drop CBS, MTV, Comedy Central and Nickelodeon because of a contract dispute.

As long as content providers carry copyrighted material on their networds, they'll be hobbled by the demands of organizations like the MPAA and Viacom who will use all the leverage they have to inhibit the end user's ability to export to any portable digital media. Standalone PVRs and in-TV PVRs are farther outside their control, and as that control is flexed, PVR customers will flock to these options.

TiVo-in-TV, which Sony plans to market later this year, is another gimmie. It will provide a free 3-day window to the future, with an inexpensive up-sell to season pass functionality. The TV-TiVo-DVR box is probably about 24 months away.

Jim's main point is that TiVo will fail because the costs of enteing the market and delivering product are dropping rapidly, but this is likely why they'll succeed. TiVo will never be a Yahoo or other conglomorate, but they will become a platform standard with a steady revenue stream. When prices fall uniformly, users flock to the best solution, not the cheapest. Getting PVRs into peoples hands cheaply, on the backs of other products is exactly why the market will succeed, and when the market succeeds, TiVo will likely be at the top of it, based on product quality.

True, you won't have to buy a $299 box for your parents to bring them the light, but when you see the glow in their eyes, talking about the magic recording TV they bought at Best Buy last month, you can bet it'll have a little guy with two antennae and no arms stickered onto the remote.

TechTV aired the UK series for a while, and they also aquired the rights to produce a US-based version of the series. I know TechTV had tickets to give away to this event but I'm not sure if TechTV is going to be televising this event in the form of a future weekly series...

TechTV did a short article on this not too long ago. All free tools. I've used DVDXCopy and even CloneDVD, but the truth is these free tools work best (DVD Decrypter and DVD Shrink). http://www.techtv.com/screensavers/darktips/story/ 0,24330,3605537,00.html

Actually, why not cut out the middle-man and get this game.

Kinda makes the Teletubbies seem like rocket scientists.

Their mod specialist Yoshi DeHerrera will show off a cardboard case PC. (Web story is already posted here.)

This was actually a delayed segment from last week. Yoshi cut his hand working on setting up his demo on how he did it last time he tried to do this segment. He needed to leave the studio to get stitches and missed most of the show as a result.

It's like an entertainment center type package. I guess the idea is you won't WANT to leave home and therefore never carry it.

HP Pavilion zd7000 review on freshgear/techtv

*shrug* some things don't need to be supersized.

e.

I'm sure it will support the Xshok controller. That should liven up your game.

If they decide to vibrate off the hook they'll be opening themselves up to HAVS lawsuits. Alternatively, they could also just strobe the screen and cause epileptic fits.

I'm starting to think that they should just package drugs with the game.
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I had mod points but I sold them on eBay.

This was covered several times on TechTV. But most recently, on The Screensavers on January 13th. Here is the article by Macworld contributing editor Christoper Breen. It's very informative. It seems he destroyed a couple of iPods himself in the process. The article has useful links for iPod battery kits as well.

I highly recommend his book, Secrets of the iPod, for any other tricks and tips to help you make your iPod into much more than a music player.

This was covered several times on TechTV. But most recently, on The Screensavers on January 13th. Here is the article by Macworld contributing editor Christoper Breen. It's very informative. It seems he destroyed a couple of iPods himself in the process. The article has useful links for iPod battery kits as well.

I highly recommend his book, Secrets of the iPod, for any other tricks and tips to help you make your iPod into much more than a music player.

This was covered several times on TechTV. But most recently, on The Screensavers on January 13th. Here is the article by Macworld contributing editor Christoper Breen. It's very informative. It seems he destroyed a couple of iPods himself in the process. The article has useful links for iPod battery kits as well.

I highly recommend his book, Secrets of the iPod, for any other tricks and tips to help you make your iPod into much more than a music player.

When the battery dies under warranty, the usual process is that you send your dead iPod in it's whole to Apple and they send you a refurbished unit.

Having said that, there are how-to documents that show how to open the iPod and swap the battery yourself, saving a bit of money.

I guess all the bad press that Apple has received over the lifespan issues of the iPod battery has really pushed them to provide the extended warranty and an avenue to have them replace the battery on a pay per battery type deal.

Watching TechTV today and on thier news program, TechLive, they talked about a new laptop computer that was released by Sharp called the Actius RD3D. Sharp is calling the laptop the first "auto-stereo" laptop. I don't have much by way of tech specs but check out the article and sharp's web page for the details. sounds interesting but not practicle.

I watch a lot of tv and the best way I can think of is by downloading two programs one for backing up the disc to your computer DVD Decryptor then shrinking the dvd with DVD shrink then using some sort of card to get sound and video to your tv then ATI's Remote Wonderto control the the computer stream. Then that should work reasonbly well for what you want to do.

I watch a lot of tv and the best way I can think of is by downloading two programs one for backing up the disc to your computer DVD Decryptor then shrinking the dvd with DVD shrink then using some sort of card to get sound and video to your tv then ATI's Remote Wonderto control the the computer stream. Then that should work reasonbly well for what you want to do.

laptops are meant to be portable. your average 8-9 pound 1 hour battery life monster isn't portable. it's a portable desktop. apple doesn't make portable desktops, it makes laptops.

Ummmm.

I'll grant you that Apple's laptops are thin and light vs. their screen sizes, but the 17" PB is a definite desktop replacement, not a laptop.

And besides, Apple is not the only company out there making small laptops. There are so many laptops to choose from that it's honestly unfair to Apple to compare their lineup to the entirety of what's available. They make exactly two styles of laptops, both of which are cosmetically quite similar when you get down to it (one line has a different material for the case and is slightly smaller), so if you're going to play Apple vs. everybody else almost anybody could come up with examples of other brands doing either exactly what Apple's doing hardware-wise at least as well as they are, or alternatives that may take a different approach and one that some people might prefer.

laptops are meant to be portable. your average 8-9 pound 1 hour battery life monster isn't portable. it's a portable desktop. apple doesn't make portable desktops, it makes laptops.

Ummmm.

I'll grant you that Apple's laptops are thin and light vs. their screen sizes, but the 17" PB is a definite desktop replacement, not a laptop.

And besides, Apple is not the only company out there making small laptops. There are so many laptops to choose from that it's honestly unfair to Apple to compare their lineup to the entirety of what's available. They make exactly two styles of laptops, both of which are cosmetically quite similar when you get down to it (one line has a different material for the case and is slightly smaller), so if you're going to play Apple vs. everybody else almost anybody could come up with examples of other brands doing either exactly what Apple's doing hardware-wise at least as well as they are, or alternatives that may take a different approach and one that some people might prefer.

Even a 16-year old who could code well in 80x86 assembler and C would get laughed out of any interviews for real programming jobs they applied for back in the 90's. These days, they'd never get the interview in the first place.

It's not so much that they want to attack society. It's more that our society won't take kids skills seriously enough to let them be a part - anything productive they do, they'll have to come up with entirely on their own.

Obviously it's better to write open source code and build a portfolio, but that takes a lot of discipline for a kid that's pissed off at the world because he's stuck in a dumbed-down school system being spoon-fed shit every day, with no way out but just trudging through it for a few more years until he can either go to college or drop out and get a job. It's only the last 5 years where online open-source collaboration was even doable for a teenager, and the virus scene was started back in the late 80's with BBS's.

Not defending 'em, but put yourself in their shoes... I've been there.

I wish I had gotten into the demo scene instead at the time, but I'm glad I learned coding all the same - the programming skills paid off well later when I was old enough for society to let me use them professionally.

He was also interviewed on Unscrewed last night. Unscrewed Wednesday Episode Not much at that link, but check the schedule to see when it'll be replayed.

Whether Apple innovates in the hardware department is debatable. But they are pretty good fortune tellers. Let me count the tools they brought first to the home PC user.
1. 64 bit computing
2. Bluetooth
3. Firewire
4. 802.11b/g
5. USB
6. DVD/CD Writeable [got tired of linking]
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100,000,000. SCSI

• Airline power adapter
  or
• my superlong electrofuel battery

Downside to the airline powercord is that the only major airline to deploy the jacks throughout coach seating is USAir, and they went bankrupt (what's to happen is anyone's guess). The electrofuel's been losing some charge, but it's still rather sweet, giving me far more than I would ever need (even when I fly to europe).

'Talkback's are funnier...

Apple may only have 3% market share, but it's the top 3%.

The article does bring up a very good point:

a negative shot on traditional 200-speed film can produce the equivalent of 18 megapixels of resolution. Only highly specialized, expensive digital cameras approach that now; most that consumers buy are less than 5 megapixels.

In Australia the notes are made from plastic with a transparent section.

It's not something you could make with a scanner and a printer

For those that might have missed it, nerd nation on tech tv had a special today on how india is training for many of the outsourced jobs they are now getting. One of the things i found interesting is how they are training people on american culture as well as tech skills so that they can better interact with americans on the phone. I highly recommend checking for reruns on this for anyone who is interested tech tv article here

With careful component choice, a little moding, and some 3rd party help you can quiet an existing pc (or build a quiet one from scratch)

witness yoshi's quiet PC from the screensavers/techtv.

*shrug* Now it's probably underpowered for this fancy upscanning stuff the guy in the article wanted to do, but you can get fanless mini-itx via epia boards

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I have a co-worker who is directing/producing film and video and uses his iPod ... as a presentation external hard drive.

You know you could get brownie points by letting your co-worker know about Personal Video Players (PVPs), systems from Archos and RCA and Creative and others that not only store video, but also play it back, either on-screen on using video outputs. The iPod seems a little limited in this respect - it's just a storage medium, with a mnonochrome display that does not, in fact, display video. Even the old Archos Recorder can now display 30fps video (mono!). PVPs were super-hot at CES... Apple better get a move on releasing that video iPod.

I have a $2800 VAIO paperweight on my desk next to me that sony refused to replace the HDD in. They had previously replaced the LCD and DVDROM drive. In my old HP Pavilion 8490 the Sony DVDROM drive failed after about two and a half years of very little use.

Disc Read Errors plague the first generation PS2. Mine has started to have it badly. TechTV has a fairly quick fix for it that seems to work but the problem does eventually come back. It was fixed in later generation models.

Oh and I had a Sony desktop CD player that stopped playing CDs after about a year of light use. I'm very unimpressed by them so far.

'I may have invented it, but Bill made it famous,' Bradley said.

Note that Bradley claimed to be referring to the NT logon procedure. Full quote is from this video.

The denon PVR server will do that
Denon PVR server

Didn't blaster target the wrong address for Windows Update?

DDOS a website that probably gets about 10 interested visitors a day anyway?

Personally I'm surprised at the lack of damage these things do. Our systems and people are apparently wide open to these things. Blaster and MyDoom should be viewed as warning shots. It's only going to be a matter of time before someone writes something that infects, spends 2-8 hours propagating itself and then nukes the system it's living on, causing real widespread damage rather than minor annoyances.

CTS not caused by keyboards

Actually, no. I haven't stolen a single piece of software on my computer, and it's still cheaper than those macs.


This may be so, but since there's absolutely no comparison for iLife in the PC world, you still lose out here.

Plus, there's something about being able to upgrade that PC as needed, instead of being locked into Apple's (or Dell's) lame "throw away the whole computer and buy a new one" scheme.

Actually, you CAN upgrade iMacs. Its a long-standing myth that Macs are not upgradable, they have been for quite some time. They use industry standard HDs, RAM, etc. And since Macs traditionally have a much longer usable life, this isn't a valid point either. I bought a blue and white G3 in 1999. It now has a G4, DVD-R, 200GB storage, 1GB RAM, upgraded video card, etc. Not a single piece is stock, and it still fits all my needs. Upgradable and long lasting.

And unlike the Mac, I can actually run games on this machine.

Sigh. Old argument.

Do I need to buy a new OS _minor_ version every year, like you Mac fans seem happy to? Hell, no.

There's nothing minor about the changes between 10, 10.1, 10.2, and 10.3. Its just that they release MAJOR system updates more frequently. And most software that runs on 10.3 will run on 10.2 and 10.1 as well. And 10.1 was a free upgrade from 10.0. Do your homework, you're obviously misinformed.

So putting that all together, it's cost me about 1000$ to swap a new mobo, an A64 3200+ and a Radeon 9800 XT into the existing computer. Even if I'm to add the price of the already bought 16ms LCD monitor (which is light-years ahead of the lame cheap-ass panel in the iMac), I still end up under 1500$

And iMacs start at 1299, cheaper than your 1500 quote, and a consumer doesn't have to waste days putting it all together, installing OSes, downloading drivers, etc. You get the picture. I'm guessing your time isn't worth anything.

So, please... just because you're the non-technical kind who's terminally affraid to install a CPU, doesn't mean everyone else is in the same bracket. You stick to your Macs, I'll stick to my PC.

I build PCs too buddy. Its a pretty much "slot-A into tab-A" affair, and if I were you I wouldn't take so much pride in it - somewhere out there is an 8 year old who could built a PC that's better faster and cheaper. And to clear things up, I've upgraded processors on many Macs as well. If I want a router/firewall, cheap secondary box, project box, I'd use commodity parts and a free OS. But if I'm going to sit in front of a computer that has my whole life on it, and handles all my day to day tasks that make life FUN, not just FUNCTIONAL, its all about the Mac.

This all pretty much adds up to your arguments being hollow and your pride being hurt by the fact that you couldn't possibly have made the wrong computing choice, even though you never bothered to do all the research. Obviously.

This is my favorite quote:
In the other corner a lame iMac which is useless for anything except web browsing

Hahahahahahahahahahaha! Doesn't even merit a response. You've obviously never used one and haven't spent enough time doing anything other than gaming on your PC to realize that for media, internet, networking, printing, PDF workflow, ease-of-use, stability, extensibility, and much much more, the iMac wins hands down.

I mean, how can you sit there and say that a full UNIX based system that allows joe schmoe to use apache, SMB, NFS, AFP, WebDAV, N

A really good troll makes every word in his sentence a link so that his point seems valid.

You don't even have to visit the sites, just google something like "linux vs windows", grab relevent links and include then in your post. No one will read them anyways, and believe you because you provided plenty of background Info and reputable sources (computing.net included!). They will have to believe your Pro-Windows rant.

Linux isn't a Toy OS. it's used by google. Who provided you this Informative post :)

Here is an example law, in this case building codes, being proprietary. More info here.

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Psh... that's amateur stuff. What you need is some thermite. ;)

Tom's Diner by S. Vega. It's the MP3 that MP3 coding was tested against. Remember how many times he listened to it?

See :
"The Voice that Launched a Million MP3s"

The ultimate gaming machine: Yoshi's Boxx - which includes, all in one box:

# Atari 2600
# Nintendo Entertainment System (8-bit)
# Microsoft Xbox
# Nintendo GameCube
# Sony PlayStation 2
# A custom PC

Well lets see. There is the famous PS2 disc read error where the ps2 slowly and suspiciously reads media worse and worse. The playstation 1 ball bearings that hold the cd in place often fall right out. There is also a design flaw in the ps2 hardware that virtually halves its performance. That one you can't fix, and is why the ps2 graphics are so bad. It is getting pretty boring trying to look these things up, but I hope that helps!

Here's a direct link:
Link to TechTV

I did not RTFA, but a related story was on Tech-TV. http://www.techtv.com/news/scitech/story/0,24195,3 587957,00.html

TechTV is also doing a lot of coverage, albeit on TV. They will have their best-of awards again this year, and will post the award winners.